Improvement in washing-machines



GAIL;

lmprovementin Washing Machines.

N0. 124,675l l PatentedMarch19,l872.

UNITED STATES LOCKWOOD GAIL, OFBUFFALO, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 124,675, dated March19, 1872.

Specication describing certain new and use- A ful Improvements inVlashing-Machines,77 in- N atnre of the Invention.

My invention consists in combining, with a complete set of conicalrollers and a remova- V ble post, an arrangement of parts forfacilitating the action, as hereinafter described.

, General Description.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a plan. Fig. 2 is a vertical crosssectionthrough the center of the tub; Fig. 3, part of the connectingrod.

A is the tub, having an auxiliary tinted or corrugated disk, B, attachedto the bottom. In the center is a short vertical pin, a, setting intothe upright standard or operating-post C, and on which the postrevolves. This post has pivoted to it, near the bottom, a number ofconical uted rollers, D, widenin g outward, as shown, and whose outerends are pivoted in a surrounding hoop or rim, E, in which the rollerswork. b represents the lever, attached to the post near the top, bywhich the rollers are operated; and c c represent radial arms or guides,to whose 'outer ends are attached connecting-rods d d, which are alsoattached to the hoop. These are to aid in moving the rollers, and toprevent too high a movement to them; but to allowa sufficient playingoin gover the clothes by means of a slot, e, and a headed pin, j,working in said slot, as shown in Fig.

3. Surrounding the post G and attached to the bottom Bis a metal ring orthimble, d', which extends up above the bottom a short distance', toprevent the cloth from clogging the rollers l or winding around thepost. This, and the slotted rods d d, are important parts of myinvention.

I am acquainted with washing-machines having two or three uted rollers,which are attached to a center-post; but in these the post is notremovable, and but a segment of a circle of rollers is used; otherwisethe clothes could not be put in the tub. Mine, by lifting thecenter-post C from the pin a, allows the whole set of rollers to beremoved at once to put vthe clothes, &o., into the bottom of the tub;then the post is set on the pin a, and by turning the rollers, will actevenly on the cloth. The hole in the post is made of sufficient depth toallow a movement up and down, to accommodate to the thickness or spacebetween the bottom and rollers but mainly, to overcome by thehand-pressure downward in the center, the overbalancing pressure orweight of the large' end of the rollers, as compared` with that of thesmall or inner end. This is an important, and, I believe, an entirelynovel feature of my invention. o

The employment of a complete circle or rim, E, for the rollers D, isalso another feature of novelty, as thereby a uniform movement of therollers is had, and a consequent uniform pressure on the clothesunderneath is attained, preventing ridges or holes into which some ofthe rollers, if not conned in the hoop, would sink or run against. Inconsequence of this uniformity of movement and pressure, the clothes arebetter Washed, and are not easily worn out by washing; l

I claim- In combination with the conical rollers D D and removable postC, the ring E, cross-arm c, slotted rods d d, stationary thimble df, andpivot-pin a, all arranged to operate as herein described. 1 l

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of twosubscribingwitnesses.

. LOCKWOOD GAIL.

Witnesses:

'J. R. DRAKE, p C. N. WooDwARD.

